Kaliyana and Kultur Bazar are proud to present « Deb Rubin Dance Therapeutics Retreat », an exceptional retreat, in the South of Toulouse (France), in a lovely place, from 18th to 20th September 2015.
This program was designed as a 14hr. elite retreat comprehensive format for dancers of all levels who are looking to take their practice to an elite level within themselves. The retreat touches of Deb Rubin’s signature 3-layer approach to TribalFusion Training, incorporating: Technique, Artistry, AND Therapeutics, to provide dancers with a comprehensive toolkit and a holistic approach to the dance. Dive deep into the creative cauldron with us this weekend, and allow your Best Self to emerge….

Full program below (14Hrs. Worshops)
Place : Lieu-dit Moureous, 09230 Sainte-Croix-de-Volvestre (France)
Accomodation available on Thursday for those who come from far away. Please contact us by email : dance.therapeutics.retreat@gmail.com
Studio show : saturday evening

5 Early Bird spots : 525€
Regular price: 550€
Including 14Hrs. workshops
Full board (meals and accommodation over 3 days and 2 nights)

250€ deposit at registration.
Balance due before August 15th 2015.

To register, please send an email at :
dance.therapeutics.retreat@gmail.com
Payment accepted by bank transfer and paypal. We will give you the account number for the transfer.
Payment accepted by VISA (+weezevent fees).https://www.weezevent.com/dance-therapeutics-retreat

The tickets are non-refundable. However, if you wish to cancel, contact us as we will try to sell your workshop spot to people on the waiting list, if there is one. Any tickets sold directly by you must be indicated to us in advance with identity of the new participant. Thank you for your understanding.
Online registration :

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DEB RUBIN’S BIO
Deb Rubin is an international tribal fusion teacher and performer, a holistic health counselor, yoga teacher, and intergrative bodyworker. Deb’s private practice specializes in women’s health and injury rehab for dancers. With 15 years experience working in the field of mind/body médicine, and 30+years in dedicated study and performance of dance, her focus is to be a bridge between those two areas, bringing an integrative approach to the study and embodiment of this evolving art form.
More info : http://www.sattyabody.net/about-deb.html

11am-12am : FLUID CORE YOGA FOR BELLYDANCERS
Introduction to Deb’s new Fluid Core Yoga for bellydancers, to open the body, awaken the core, align the spine, center the mind. A comprehensive daily practice designed to prepare the body specifically for belly dance. May also include: core conditioning, and bellyroll-asana, and an experiential anatomy introduction to fascial planes.

2pm-4pm : DANCE THERAPEUTICS GROUNDWORK
How to unlock the body and maximize potential for flow states and performance optimization. Workshop includes concepts of dancer anatomy, fascia planes as mapped by Tom Meyer’s Anatomy Trains, the 5 yogic koshas, and dynamic tensegrity to revision the Body in a more integrative, dynamic way, as well as the self-care practices of Yamuna Body Rolling to focus on traditionally ‘stuck’ places in the bellydancer’s body, such as IT band, hips, back, legs, and psoas, and experientially trace the Fascial lines and feel the interconnectivity.

4:30pm-6:30pm : DAILY DRILLS / CONDITIONING / COMBOS
Focus will be on layering & glitch. How to train smarter and more efficiently, how to build complex layers from the ground up, how to create new combos and pathways to drill to, in order to push your edges and keep your training fresh and inspired. *Highlights Deb’s rubix cube method of teaching layering, and breaking down and building it back up. Focus will be on cultivating clean, crisp layers, over graceful, fluid, traveling footwork patterns and torso isolations/bellyrolls, while also beginning to layer elements such as character, emotion, relaxed facial expression, intentional drishti (eye gaze), mood, in order to train in the studio like we want to project on the stage.

10am-12am : DANCE THERAPEUTICS UPPER BODY
In this workshop, we will focus on upper spine, ribs, shoulders, neck, and side body, and learn how to unlock even the most “stuck” places, like the thoracic spine, for ultimate movement expression in bellydance, and proper Tribal posture and frame that saves the shoulder joints. Drawing from Yoga Therapy, Traditional Thai-Yoga Massage, Anusara Yoga, Viniyoga practices, Somatic education, and Deb’s personal stash, we will focus on creating more space and flexibility in the upper body, spine, and shoulders to directly support your belly dancing posture, arms, isolations, flexibility, and articulation of movement in order to create slinkier, more controlled slow movements and maximum expression through the arms, hands, and fingertips. All of this will be directly applied to belly dance technique and stylization.

2pm-5pm : CREATING MORE DECADENT DANCING. CIRCLES, SPIRALS, PATHWAYS; FINISHING TOUCHES; DEEPENING MOVEMENT QUALITY/ELEGANT ARMS
After learning how to properly unlock and activate the body to prime it for elite level training, we will now deep dive into Deb’s repertoire of slow, slinky tribal and learn how to cultivate the ultimate slink factor, refine and deepen your movement quality, and cultivate the technique and artistry necessary for an elite dancer. Exploring the core, learn how to access deeper places in your torso from which to instigate movements, smooth transitions, fluidity, presence. We will play with adding elements of suspension, pause, and subtlies to your dancing to create ultimate drama, and the intoxicating look and feel of slow/slinky tribal. We will also play stylized torso isolations, with emphasis on “the tension of opposites” and interplay between smooth transitions/serpentine slink and sharp/controlled locks, exploring the advanced elements of contrast and creating tension within a single movement phrase, to give your choreographies texture and let your own individual voice and musicality shine through. Deb has been coined ‘the queen of slink”. Come learn her ultimate slink factor secrets of how to access the deepest musculature of the body to create jaw-dropping, refined, mesmerizing movement quality, presence, and form. Combos, and manipulation of combos to bring out one’s own individual voice are included.
This module also includes material from workshops on: Elegant Arms:
Intense focus on arms, shapes, and articulating from the head to the fingertips, helping to embody the most expressive, intentional dancing and posturing possible, and accent your body movements. We will also explore the choice of movement or stillness in the ARMS as ways to consciously express emotionality, intention, and character in your dancing.

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20th SEPT : DANCE THERAPEUTICS FOR BELLYDANCE

10am-12am : DANCE THERAPEUTICS LOWER BODY
Drawing from Yoga therapy, Traditional Thai-Yoga Massage, Feldenkrais, Somatic education, partner yoga, and Deb’s personal “stash” of dance therapeutics, this workshop will deeply and safely help you increase spinal articulation, release the low back, hips, gluts, sacrum, and legs; dramatically increase ability for belly dance isolations and layering, and give you lasting tools for your own personal practice and dancer self-care. All of this will be applied to tribal fusion belly dance. A therapeutic daily series will be given for low back/hips.

2pm-4pm : EFFICIENT SELF-CARE & DIRECT APPLICATIONS OF DANCE THERAPEUTICS FOR BELLYDANCE
Warm up of this workshop will review Deb’s signature self-care practices and bodyrolling to focus on traditionally ‘stuck’ places in the bellydancer’s body. Beyond Yoga, This workshop introducers dancers to Deb’s signature self-care tools, that combine the wisdom of Yoga, bodywork with leading-edge somatics to provide deeper, more effective results in a shorter amount of warm-up time. Then, we will apply this to actual dancing drills and across the floor combos, to integrate the material, allow the body to calibrate to a new fluidity and balance, and so the dancer can feel the direct results of these practices in taking their dancing to the next level of refinement, grace, and form.